From SFScope friend Andrew Porter, we get this news from Laurraine Tutihasi:
“Jay Kay Klein is in hospice for terminal oesophageal cancer. When I talked with him a few months ago, he sounded hopeful that treatments had knocked it back; but the man who called me said that was wishful thinking on Jay Kay’s part. I don’t know how the man who called me is related to Jay Kay, but he is the one who placed Jay Kay in hospice.”
In probably related news, last month Klein donated his photograph archives to the Eaton Collection (see this File 770 article.
Born in Philadelphia in 1931, Klein was the Fan Guest of Honor at Discon II, the 32th World Science Fiction Convention (1974), and the recipient of fandom’s Big Heart Award in 1990. He is known for his photography within science fiction: portraits of fans and pros, stereo images with his home-built stereo camera, and much more. For many years, he wrote the “Biolog” feature of author biographies, accompanied by his photographs, in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. He also published three stories: a short called “On Conquered Earth” in the December 1967 issue of If, and two Probability Zero short-shorts in Analog: “Century of Progress” (December 1984) and “Mass Communication” (August 1985).